On the Bright side

Well, I write about how I'm afraid that the Lord is going to ask too much of me, and then the next day Hallow tells me "the Lord will never ask for more than you are willing to give." Talk about Lent being a continual kick in the head. Thanks for that.

Speaking of which, Monday morning was the coldest we've had in a while. I went out to my car and... nada. Battery was dead. No biggie. I dressed warm, also Hubby gave me a jumper gizmo. I get it out of the trunk, hook it up, wait a bit, and VROOM! Put everything away, get in and... it won't get out of 1st gear. Ok. Maybe it needs to warm up. Drive thru a couple parking lots... nope. Call hubby, he says go home, I'm on my way. I call my boss, he says work from home and keep me posted. We go to Costco for a new battery (on my lunch, relax), hubbs puts in the new battery and... starts fine, still won't shift. So I get permission to work from home for the foreseeable future, reach out to a friend from the area, make an appt at the mechanic for Friday morning, and eventually thaw out (again, COLDEST DAY FOR LIKE A MONTH). Tuesday the CNO learns that I'm going to be working from home, but I don't have a work laptop so I'm limited in what I can do (webinars, mostly). She says NOPE and starts the process to get me a laptop. Wednesday around 11 she comes by to drop off my new laptop (I've been asking for like 2 years now, she gets it done in 2 days) make sure I can get in it and the VPN works, then takes off again. (I sooooo owe her drinks.) I got real work done Wed pm and all day Thurs. 

My coworker all week. He was fired for clawing the crap outta my finger. 

He seemed ok with being able to sleep in a bit. Sweet kitty baby.

I had already requested Friday off, so that day we drove 10 mph to the shop (backroads FTW!) left the car with the mechanic, and went to breakfast. The food at Our Place is great! We already had plans for a date night in Grapevine, so we waited for traffic to die down and made our way to the northern part of the metroplex. We had a great time walking around Grapevine mills mall, checking into our hotel, having a drink at the bar, then getting our Uber and going to Messina hof winery for our pizza and wine pairing. 

Hubbs is the God of thunder!!

Getting ready to go.

Pre-pizza snackies

All the wines we'd be taking

Pizza #1- veggie, 2 was chicken pesto, 3 was Chicago Joe (pepperoni, ham, pepperoncini), 4 was spicy hula (pineapple, ham, and jalapeño), and 5 was Nutella and banana. 

Dessert pizza. So good. We decided we didn't want to go back to the hotel yet, so we went to Napolis and had appetizers and drinks.

Ricotta dip with toast and tiny foccacia 

Dessert: lemon cake with lemon icing. 

PDA while waiting on the return uber.

Then back to hotel and sleeps. The next day we got up, found a cute Aussie Cafe for lunch, then headed to the plano area to go to a game store. Wandered that for a while and then met up with our friends for a triple bday party. C made ramen, we had a lot of fun, then headed home to the kitty cat. He was confused and happy to have us home. 

Chai with walnut banana bread

I got a new friend, too.

Found the BEST margarita stuffy.

Seeing our friends was lovely. Sunday I got up and took the van to Mass, then we decided to stay in the rest of the day. We have ordered torchys tacos for lunch, and will probably have groceries delivered, too. 😁 found out on Friday that I fried the transmission control module so the mechanic will have to change that out. The car should be done by Monday afternoon/evening, so I'll be working from home again on Monday, maybe even Tuesday. Sigh. Such is life, I guess.

I hope all is well with you my friends. I hope you are able to relax today and prepare for the coming week. Hugs and love.

Happy snuggly kitty.